Thoughts on Moving to the UNH Law School

As Al Brophy noted yesterday here on the Lounge, I will be departing Hastings next summer for the University of New Hampshire School of Law.  For the past 25 years Hastings has been a fine professional home and I am grateful for all that Hastings has done for me.  But I am excited to be joining the UNH law faculty.  UNH – formerly Franklin Pierce – is an undervalued resource in the legal academic community.  It has long had an excellent intellectual property program but in recent years it has quietly assembled a talented pool of younger scholars who are making more of an impact on the legal scholarly landscape.  The students are serious, eager, diligent, and professional.  The faculty is congenial, committed to both excellent teaching and scholarship.  Dean John Broderick, who came to UNH from the New Hampshire Supreme Court, where he was Chief Justice, is a bundle of energy, vision, and fine ambition for the future of the school.  In short, UNH is entering an new and more lustrous phase in its development, and I consider myself privileged to be a part of this evolution. I hope to facilitate interesting and important conferences at UNH, along with continuing to write articles and books, and keeping my two casebooks (Constitutional Law and my forthcoming Property casebook) current.  I look forward to teaching a new band of students and living full time in New England.